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Stealing
When the boys’ father came to pick them up at their mother’s and take them for the day, he was…
Play Money
At eight I was rich and powerful, controlled railroads and electric companies. A banker, I embezzled rainbows of cash that…
The Extinction Museum: Exhibit # 914 (tank of anoxic water from Gulf of Mexico near the mouth of the Mississippi River)
The bloom of your skin as the river thickens around us. Constellations of algae exhale. We eat the fish that…
Phantom Trails
When Tía Amelia died, we ordered KFC. “Kentucky Fried Cruelty,” she used to call it, before biting into the flesh…
On Sewing and the Anatomy of Lips
On Sewing and the Anatomy of Lips Cupid’s bow: The contour line of the upper vermilion. I am drawn tight,…
Cow Town Carnival
Mom was pushing 80 past a semi on the wrong side of Madison, and it was one of them numbers…
Rat Girl
She calls herself Rat Girl, but she looks like a little Swiss doll. Now in the Chapel, she is singing…
SINFUL TANGO
Like a toddler lost in a laundry basket full of dirty towels, the Argentine music dances. Cuts through the candlelit…
Crafting From Beyond
Here’s something I want to confess: I’ve stopped trying. A curvier-beaked whale dies with a lump of plastic in its…
A Diptych at the Seaside
1. She collects seashells, three in a row. One domed, a Buddhist stupa; another hugs the ground, an earthworm after…
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